Unit-II Part-VIII

1.      Identify the great English novelist living in the age of the Romantics, yet not affected by the stream of Romanticism :
                        a.  Jane Austen        
                        b. Miss Burney               
                        c. John Wolcot      
                        d. George Eliot

2.      The two great romantic poets behind the creation of Lyrical Ballads are :
                        a.  Wordsworth and Coleridge                          
                        b. Keats and Wordsworth
                        c. Collins and Gray                  
                        d. Byron and Shelley

3.      Which poem of Coleridge is considered as a ‘fragmentary epic’?
                        a.  The Ancient Mariner   
                        b. Kubla Khan        
                        c. Christabel          
                        d. Dejection, an Ode

4.      Which of the following is NOT written by Lord Byron?
                        a.  Ivanhoe           
                        b. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage      
                        c. The Prisoner of Chillon   
                        d. Don Juan

5.      Who nurtured the intellectual curiosity of Shelley in his formative period?
                        a.  Godwin        
                        b. Mill                       
                        c. Locke              
                        d. Hobbes

6.      “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”. Which poem of Keats begins with this line?
                        a.  Eve of St. Agnes      
                        b. Isabella        
                        c. Hyperion          
                        d. Endymion

7.      Which of the following books did Charles Lamb write in collaboration with his sister Mary?
                        a.  Essays of Elia        
                        b. Last Essays of Elia  
                        c. John Woodvil 
                        d. Tales from Shakespeare

8.      Which of the following characters is NOT the creation of Charles Dickens?
                        a.  Pickwick             
                        b. David Copperfield      
                        c. Micawber          
                        d. Michael Henchard

9.      “God’s in his heavens and / All’s right with the world”. Name the poet of this optimistic philosophy in the Victorian age?
                        a. Christina Rossetti     
                        b. Robert Browning      
                        c. William Morris       
                        d. D.G. Rossetti

10.   G. Lytton Strachey is :
                        a.  A biographer and a critic      
                        b. A novelist     
                        c. A playwright        
                        d. A poet

11.   Many of Browning’s poem are on :
                        a.  Renaissance Italy      
                        b. Nineteenth Century Italy  
                        c. French Revolution    
                        d. German Romanticism

12.   Shooting the Niagara is written by :
                        a.  Matthew Arnold 
                        b. Thomas Carlyle             
                        c. John Ruskin         
                        d. John Bright

13.   Dickens’s Hard Times is a satire on :
                        a.  Utilitarianism        
                        b. Liberalism            
                        c. Trade Unions         
                        d. The British Aristocracy

14.   Which poem of Wordsworth is the ‘autobiography of the poet’s soul’?
                        a.  Prelude                   
                        b. Immortality Ode            
                        c. Michael             
                        d. Tintern Abbey

15.   Gungadin appears in a poem by :
                        a.  Rudyard Kipling      
                        b. Toru Dutt                 
                        c. Sarojini Naidu 
                        d. Jayanta Mahapatra

16.   Gandhi was influenced by a work written by :
                        a.  Ruskin              
                        b. William Morris               
                        c. Cardinal Newman        
                        d. Walter Pater

17.   Identify the texts in which blank verse is used :

i.       Paradise Lost                             ii. Prelude                           iii. Tintern Abbey               iv. Ode to the Westwind
      a.  (i) and (ii)          
      b. (i), (ii) and (iii)      
      c. (i), (ii) and (iv) 
      d. (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

18.   Restoration Comedy is characterized by :
                        a.  Prudery              
                        b. Rural themes       
                        c. Wit and repartee             
                        d. Religious conflict

19.   The first British writer to win the Nobel Prize was :
                        a.  Rudyard Kipling      
                        b. John Galsworthy           
                        c. Bertrand Russell        
                        d. T.S. Eliot

20.   The author who was NOT a contemporary of Daniel Defoe was :
                        a.  Jonathan Swift      
                        b. Eliza Haywood           
                        c. Leigh Hunt          
                        d. John Arbuthnot

21.   “Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

A sight so touching in its majesty:”

In the above lines the poet is describing :

                  a.  Tintern Abbey         

                  b. Scafell Pike                  

                  c. Thames River       

                  d.  Lake Windermere

22.   An eponymous character in a work is :

a. The most important character in the work.

b. A character that is never named.

c. One that appears under an assumed name.

d. One whose name is also the title of the work.

23.   Which of these works by Robert Browning does NOT have an Italian setting?
                        a.  My Last Duchess   
                        b. Fra Lippo Lippi    
                        c. The Ring and the Book        
                        d. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country

24.   Charles Lamb defended restoration drama against charges of :
                        a.  Immorality          
                        b. Vulgarity            
                        c. Political extremism           
                        d. Religious bigotry

25.   The sub-title of Frankenstein refers to the myth of :
                        a.  Icarus             
                        b. Daedalus          
                        c. Prometheus          
                        d. Vulcan

26.   “It is a truth well-known.....” These famous opening lines of Pride and Prejudice are :
                        a.  Ironical                
                        b. Factual                 
                        c. Paradoxical                   
                        d. Sentimental

27.   Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities is associated with :
                        a.  Royal Court of France                        
                        b. The Jacobins
                        c.  The English Working Class                    
                        d. The French Aristocracy

28.   Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights is :
                        a.  A reliable narrator                              
                        b. An unreliable narrator
                        c.  The only narrator in the novel                 
                        d. None of the above

29.   Which among the following is a novel of R.L. Stevenson?
                        a.  Barchester Towers       
                        b. North and South      
                        c. The Cloister and Hearth       
                        d. Treasure Island

30.   A single monosyllabic rhyme is called :
                        a.  Masculine rhyme       
                        b. Feminine rhyme       
                        c. Eye-rhyme               
                        d. End rhyme

31.   The terms ‘strophe’, ‘anti-strophe’ and ‘epodo’ are associated with :
                        a.  Sonnet            
                        b. Elegy               
                        c. Ode                      
                        d. Ballad

32.   'Orlick' appears in which of these novels?
                        a.  A Tale of Two Cities    
                        b. Oliver Twist       
                        c. Great Expectations           
                        d. Hard Times

33.   In the poem ‘Ulysses’ by Tennyson, Ulysses :
                        a.  reconciles himself to domesticity                        
                        b. resolves to begin another voyage
                        c.  accepts the responsibility to rule Itha                 
                        d. resolves to retire from active life

34.   ‘The Modern Prometheus’ was the subtitle of :
                        a.  a long poem by Shelley                            
                        b. an unfinished poem by Byron
                        c.  a novel by Mary Shelley                                   
                        d. a poetic fragment by Robert Southey

35.   Which among the following is a novel written by Horace Walpole?
                        a.  The Mysteries of Udolpho                         
                        b. The Castle of Otranto
                        c.  The Monk  
                        d. The Moonstone

36.   ___________ depicts the corruption and evil of English bourgeois society.
                        a.  ‘Lord Jim’        
                        b. ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’               
                        c. ‘Sons and Lovers’       
                        d. ‘Mrs. Dalloway

37.   ’Keats in his ‘Ode on Grecian Urn’ closely examines :
                        a.  issues related to social order                        
                        b. human follies
                        c.  the state of changelessness and permanence            
                        d. natural kingdom

38.   ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways .....’ here ‘she’ refers to :
                        a.  Dark Lady             
                        b. Lucy                 
                        c. Solitary Reaper                
                        d. Diana

39.   For Jane Austen, marriage symbolizes :
                        a.  Love                   
                        b. Bondage           
                        c. Social order                 
                        d. Hatred

40.   In the opening of Dicken’s Bleak House, what weather phenomenon is used to symbolise the bleakness of the situation?
                        a.  Rain                     
                        b. Wind                 
                        c. Fog                             
                        d. Hailstones

41.   Match the following titles with their subtitles :

i.     The Importance of Being Earnest                                        -              (a) What You Will

ii.    Twelfth Night                                                                         -              (b) A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

iii.  Tess of the d’Ubervilles                                                        -              (c) The Modern Prometheus

iv.  Frankenstein                                                                          -              (d) A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

      a.  (i)-d, (ii)-b, (iii)-a, (iv)-c         

      b. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d       

      c. (i)-a, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-d

      d. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

42.   About which author did Nirad C. Chaudhuri remark that “he will be read by everyone who wants to know not only British India but also timeless India”?
                        a.  Rabindranath Tagore          
                        b. Rudyard Kipling    
                        c. T. S. Eliot         
                        d. Prem Chand

43.   A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables is called a :
                        a.  Trochee                    
                        b. Iamb                    
                        c. Anapest            
                        d. Dactyl

44.   In Jane Austen’s novel Emma, Emma marries :
                        a.  Frank Churchill              
                        b. Robert Martin        
                        c. Mr. Knightley            
                        d. Mr. Elton

45.   “Courage ! he said and pointed towards the land” In this opening line of Tennyson’s ‘Lotus Eaters’, ‘he’ refers to :
                        a.  Ulysses                     
                        b. Homer                 
                        c. God               
                        d. Navigator

46.   The woman without Pity in Keats’ ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merri’ symbolizes :
                        a.  Death                
                        b. The goddess of poetry       
                        c. Keats’ beloved         
                        d. Fate

47.   Match the following poets and the poems :

                 i.             Wordsworth                                           -              (a) Ode to the west wind

                ii.             Keats                                                       -              (b) Ode to Duty

               iii.             Shelley                                                    -              (c) Ode to Autumn

               iv.             Coleridge                                                -              (d) Dejection : An Ode

                  a.  (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-d         

                  b. (i)-a, (ii)-b, (iii)-c, (iv)-d       

                  c. (i)-d, (ii)-b, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

                  d. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a

48.   The book which became a cult text for some writers in the 20th century was :
                        a.  The Spirit of the Age                                
                        b. Essays of Elia
                        c.  Confessions of an English Opium Eater                   
                        d. Caleb Williams

49.   “A study of provincial life” is the sub title of :
                        a.  Middlemarch          
                        b. The Mill on the Floss         
                        c. Adam Bede        
                        d. Silas Marner

50.   The essay “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question” was written by :
                        a.  Thomas Carlyle      
                        b. John Ruskin                    
                        c. Henry Newman         
                        d. J. S. Mill

51.   Match the following novels with their subtitles:

                 i.          Vanity Fair                                                -              (a) The Weaver of Raveloe

                ii.          Oliver Twist                                              -              (b) A Novel without a Hero

               iii.          Silas Marner                                            -              (c) An Autobiography

               iv.          Jane Eyre                                                 -              (d) The Parish Boy’s Progress

                  a.  (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a        

                  b. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c          

                  c. (i)-a, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-d

                  d. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

52.   Match the following :

                 i.          Jane Austen                                             -              (a) Frankenstein

                ii.          Charlotte Bronte                                     -              (b) North and South

               iii.          Elizabeth Gaskell                                    -              (c) Jane Eyre

               iv.          Mary Shelley                                            -              (d) Northanger Abbey

                  a.  (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a            

                  b. (i)-d, (ii)-b, (iii)-c, (iv)-a

                  c. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

                  d. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

53.   In ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ which expression brings the poet back to the real world?
                        a.  Cold pastoral         
                        b. Forlorn               
                        c. Warm south         
                        d. Hungry generations

54.   In Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, the line ‘weave a circle round him thrice’ refers to :
                        a.  Kubla Khan       
                        b. The Maker of the Summer Palace      
                        c. The Poet     
                        d. Kubla Khan’s ancestor

55.   “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This opening line from Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities is in prose. But, it follows the exact pattern of :
                        a. Trochaic Metre          
                        b. Apapestic         
                        c. Iambic Metre        
                        d. Dactylic

56.    Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following works appeared :

i.       David Copperfield                     ii. Bleak House                   iii. Hard Times                   iv. Our Mutual Friend
      a.  (ii)-(iv)-(i)-(iii)                       
      b. (i)-(iii)-(ii)-(iv)     
      c. (iv)-(iii)-(ii)-(i)     
      d. (i)-(ii)-(iii)-(iv)

57.   The line “Then all smiles stopped together” in My Last Duchess suggests that :

a. The duchess became serious and stopped smiling

b. She took the Duke’s warning and stopped smiling

c.  The Duke had her killed

d. The duchess abandoned the Duke

58.   Match the following names of the woman characters with the novels in which they appear :

                 i.          Sissy Jupe                                                                -              (a) Daniel Deronda

                ii.          Gwendolen Harleth                                                 -              (b) Wuthering Heights

               iii.          Isabel                                                                        -              (c) Vanity Fair

               iv.          Beeky Sharp                                                             -              (d) Hard Times

                  a.  (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c        

                  b. (i)-c, (ii)-b, (iii)-a, (iv)-d         

                  c. (i)-a, (ii)-b, (iii)-c, (iv)-d

                  d. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-c, (iv)-d

59.   When Wordsworth says “I would rather be/ A pagan suckled in a creed outworn”, he is suggesting that :

(i)      The pagan beliefs did not treat nature only as resources to be exploited by man for his pleasure

(ii)     He is opposed to Christianity which did not accept Pagan beliefs

(iii)   Pagans had mythopoeic world view

(iv)   Paganism was not materialistic

 Of these statements :

 a.  Only (iv) is true        

 b. Only (ii) is true       

 c. Only (i) is true 

 d. (i), (iii) and (iv) are true

60.   Which of the following statements are true of Jane Austen?

(i)                As she hinted, she wrote about a small social world

(ii)             Despite her statements, her novels show a remarkable understanding of a class society

(iii) She offers a critique of the romantic sensibility

(iv) She overtly introduces political debates in her novels

Choose the correct statement/s :

  a.  Only (i) is true         

  b. (i), (ii) and (iii) are true 

  c. Only (iv) is true   

  d. Only (iii) is true

61.   Which among the following is a work of George Eliot?
                        a.  Water Babies         
                        b. Dombey and Son             
                        c. Romola            
                        d. Barchester Towers

62.   In Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the phrase ‘Sylvan historian’ :

a. Describes the urn which has history etched on it

b. The urn has all over it patterns of forest background and also scenes of past life

c. Describes the urn as part of the pastoral world

d. Describes events which actually took place in Greek history

63.   In Browning’s ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’, the speaker is :
                        a.  A priest and a painter                            
                        b. An ascetic monk
                        c.  A rabid supporter of institutional religion      
                        d. An imposter

64.   “’T is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” – who said this?
                        a.  John Webster         
                        b. Lord Tennyson        
                        c. Robert Browning      
                        d. William Congreve

65.   Who coined the phrase “Egotistical Sublime”?
                        a.  William Wordsworth     
                        b. P.B. Shelley                  
                        c. S.T. Coleridge        
                        d. John Keats

66.   Matthew Arnold’s The Scholar Gipsy is based on the story mentioned in the book The Vanity of Dogmatizing written by :
                        a.  Dr. Johnson         
                        b. Glanville                      
                        c. John Ruskin        
                        d. William Blake

67.   Who called Shelley, “a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”?
                        a. Walter Pater        
                        b. A.C. Swinburne             
                        c. Matthew Arnold         
                        d. W.B. Yeats

68.   Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otrando initiated a literary tradition called :
                        a.  Hunnish epic         
                        b. Gothic fiction            
                        c. Epistolary novel       
                        d. Medieval romance

69.   What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden”, coined by Kipling refer to?

a. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonise the world.

b. The moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the people of the world

c. The British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world.

d. The importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problem.

70.   What stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wing’?
                        a.  Rime Royal         
                        b. Ottava Rima                  
                        c. Terza Rima          
                        d. Spenserian Stanza

71.   Which of the following books was translated by John Keats?
                        a.  Aeneid               
                        b. Illiad                         
                        c. Odyssey             
                        d. Vulgate

72.   The town mentioned in the poem Lady of Shallot by Tennyson is :
                        a. London              
                        b. York                      
                        c. Camelot               
                        d. Oxford

73.   What is common among D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris and Swinburne?
                        a.  They are all painters                
                        b. They are all Victorian novelists
                        c.  They all belong to the Pre-Raphaelite movement  
                        d. They all belong to the Oxford movement

74.   Identify the poem which is NOT by Coleridge?
                        a. Christabel            
                        b. Lucan             
                        c. The Ancient Mariner        
                        d. Kubla Khan

75.   The characters Gwendolen, Cecily and Lady Bracknell figure in the play :
                        a.  Lady Wintermere’s Fan                     
                        b. A Woman of No Importance
                        c.  The Importance of Being Ernest                           
                        d. An Ideal Husband

76.   Frankenstein is a/an :
                        a.  Long poem by Shelley                                   
                        b. Play by John Dryden
                        c.  Essay by Edmund Burke                                       
                        d. Novel by Mary Shelley

77.   The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” occurs in :
                        a.  Biographia Literaria    
                        b. Preface to Lyrical Ballads     
                        c. In Defence of Poetry                
                        d. Poetics

78.   About which 19^th century English writer was it said that “He had succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the spirit of the Age, but in opposition to it”?
                        a.  Lord Byron on Coleridge       
                        b. Coleridge on Keats      
                        c. Hazlit on Lamb         
                        d. Dequincey on Crabbe

79.   Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians is a/an :
                        a.  Novelette            
                        b. Long Poem          
                        c. Biography           
                        d. Autobiographical Novel

80.   One of the connecting links between German and English romanticism is :
                        a. Keats                    
                        b. Southey             
                        c. Charles Lamb       
                        d. S.T. Coleridge

81.   Harriet Smith is a character in :
                        a.  Sense and Sensibility       
                        b. Mansfield Park      
                        c. Emma            
                        d. Persuasion

82.   Identify the poem from which the following lines are extracted :

“Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”

                  a.  To a Skylark         

                  b. The Cloud           

                  c. Ode to the West Wind 

                  d. Ozymandias

83.   The Oxford Movement renewed the Catholic inheritance of :
                        a.  The Church of Rome                           
                        b. The Church of Scotland             
                        c.  The Church of Ireland                     
                        d. The Church of England

84.   Lady Windermere’s Fan is a :
                        a.  Comedy of Humours                          
                        b. Romantic Comedy
                        c.  Comedy of Manners                                            
                        d. Romance

85.   Which of the following characters is described as a pure woman by Thomas Hardy?
                        a.  Tess                
                        b. Eustacia Vye          
                        c. Grace Milbury      
                        d. Bathsheba Everdene

86.   Who is NOT a Pre-Raphaelite writer?
                        a.  D.G. Rossetti       
                        b. Christina Rossetti          
                        c. William Morris      
                        d. Robert Browning

87.   Who, among the following, has been described as a poet of imperialism?
                        a.  Robert Graves       
                        b. Edward Thomas        
                        c. W.B. Yeats         
                        d. Rudyard Kipling

88.   “Each in his narrow cell for ever laid

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep” – These lines are taken from :

                  a.  London                                   

                  b. The Vanity of Human Wishes

                  c.  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard               

                  d. The Progress of Poesy

89.   “Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter”. These lines are written by :
                        a.  John Keats            
                        b. Lord Byron                   
                        c. Robert Burns          
                        d. William Blake

90.   Biographia Literaria was published in :
                        a.  1817              
                        b. 1815                       
                        c. 1805            
                        d. 1800

91.   Who considers William Wordsworth the third greatest poet in English after Shakespeare and Milton?
                        a. Carlyle                 
                        b. Arnold                           
                        c. Ruskin           
                        d. Coleridge

92.   Michael Henchard is a character from a novel by :
                        a.  Thomas Hardy        
                        b. Charles Dickens            
                        c. George Eliot          
                        d. Jane Austen

93.   Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

a. Great Expectations – A Tale of Two Cities – Hard Times – Bleak House

b. Hard Times – Great Expectations – A Tale of Two Cities –Bleak House

c.  Bleak House  - Hard Times – Great Expectations – A Tale of Two Cities

d. Bleak House  - Hard Times – A Tale of Two Cities – Great Expectations

94.   Maggie Tulliver is a character in :
                        a.  The Mill on the Floss       
                        b. Adam Bede           
                        c. Middlemarch         
                        d. Daniel Deronda

95.   “For the world which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, not light,

Nor attitude, not peace, not help for pain;” – These lines are written by :

                  a.  Tennyson            

                  b. Browning               

                  c. Arnold             

                  d. Arthur Hugh Clough

96.   The Subjection of Women was written by :
                        a.  John Ruskin        
                        b. J.S. Mill                   
                        c. John Newman       
                        d. Thomas Carlyle

97.   Who has written the treatise On Liberty?
                        a.  Jeremy Bentham         
                        b. John Stuart Mill       
                        c. Samuel Johnson       
                        d. John Milton

98.   “We are laid asleep in body and become a living soul.” In which poem of Wordsworth do these lines occur?
                        a.  Immortality Ode 
                        b. Tintern Abbey        
                        c. The Prelude       
                        d. The Excursion

99.   Who is the author of Biographia Literaria?
                        a.  Shelley            
                        b. Byron                        
                        c. S.T. Coleridge    
                        d. Hazlitt

100.  “Elia” is a pen-name assumed by :
              a.  Carlyle             
              b. De Quincey               
              c. Hazlitt                
              d. Lamb

101.  Choose the correct order of the movements :

a. Realism – Romanticism   - Enlightenment

b. Realism - Enlightenment – Romanticism

c.  Enlightenment - Realism – Romanticism

d. Romanticism - Realism – Enlightenment

102.  “Person from Porlock” was an unwelcome visitor to Coleridge during the composition of :
              a.  Rime of the Ancient Mariner                          
              b. Frost at Midnight
              c.  Kubla Khan                                         
              d. Christabel

103.  The Friend is a journal published by :
              a.  Wordsworth       
              b. Shelly                         
              c. Coleridge         
              d. Keats

104.  The closet drama Manfred : A dramatic poem was written by :
              a.  Wordsworth        
              b. Byron                      
              c. Coleridge        
              d. Keats

105.  Match the following works with the authors :

                 i.          Zastrozzi                                                                   -              (a) John Keats

                ii.          Endymion                                                                 ­-              (b) Mary Shelley

               iii.          The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck                           -              (c) Horace Walpole

               iv.          Hieroglyphic Tales                                                  -              (d) P. B. Shelley

                  a.  (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-a                

                  b. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c       

                  c. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a

                  d. (i)-a, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

106.  Which of the following is a novella by Charles Lamb?
              a.  Rosamund Gray      
              b. Story of Rimini       
              c. The Spirit of the Age        
              d. Inferno

107.  ‘Waverley Novels’ is associated with who among the following?
              a.  Walter Scott          
              b. Charles Lamb               
              c. J.S. Mill        
              d. Jane Austen

108.  An intellectual journal The Examiner was founded by :
              a.  Leigh Hunt & Lamb       
              b. Dequincy & Lamb          
              c. Leigh Hunt & Hazlitt      
              d. Lamb & Hazlitt

109.  ‘The House of Life’ is a sonnet sequence by :
              a.  Alfred Tennyson
              b. D.G. Rossetti           
              c. Matthew Arnold     
              d. Robert Browning

110.  Which among the following is a feature of Dramatic monologue?

a. A single person, who is patently not the poet, utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem.

b. This person addresses and interacts with one or more other people; but we know of the auditors' presence only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker.

c.  The main principle controlling the poet's choice and formulation of what the lyric speaker says is to reveal to the reader the speaker's temperament and character.

d. All of them

111.  Match the following writers with their works :

                 i.          Thomas Carlyle                                        -              (a) Culture and Anarchy

                ii.          Matthew Arnold                                       -              (b) The Stones of Venice

               iii.          John Ruskin                                            -              (c) Life Without Principle

               iv.          Henry David Thoreau                             -              (d) Past and Present

                  a.  (i)–b, (ii)–c, (iii)–d, (iv)–a    

                  b. (i)–d, (ii)–a, (iii)–b, (iv)–c     

                  c. (i)–a, (ii)–d, (iii)–b, (iv)-c

                  d. (i)–c, (ii)–a, (iii)–d, (iv)–b

112.  Which among the following is a painting by D.G. Rossetti?
              a.  Ecce Ancilla Domini     
              b. The Blessed Damozel         
              c. Beata Beatrix      
              d. All of them

113.  The fictional region ‘Wessex’ is first introduced by Hardy in which of his novel?
              a.  Under the Greenwood Tree        
              b. The Mayor of Casterbridge
              c.  Far from the Madding Crowd                       
              d. Jude the Obscure

114.  Which among the following is the correct chronological order of Hardy’s Wessex novels?

a. Under the Greenwood Tree – Far From the Madding Crowd – Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Jude the Obscure

b. Far From the Madding Crowd – Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Jude the Obscure  - Under the Greenwood Tree

c.  Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Jude the Obscure - Under the Greenwood Tree – Far From the Madding Crowd

d. Jude the Obscure  - Under the Greenwood Tree – Far From the Madding Crowd – Tess of the d’Urbervilles

115.  Emma is an unfinished fragment of :
             a.  Charlotte Bronte
             b. Emily Bronte   
             c. Anne Bronte       
             d. Anne Isabella Thackeray

116.  "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" is an essay written by :
             a.  Charlotte Bronte
             b. Emily Bronte   
             c. Anne Bronte       
             d. George Eliot

117.  M.A. Titmarsh is a pseudonym used by who among the following?
             a.  William Makepeace Thackeray    
             b. Anthony Trollope   
             c. Rudyard Kipling      
             d. George Meredith

118.  Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre was dedicated to :
             a.  William Makepeace Thackeray    
             b. Anthony Trollope   
             c. Rudyard Kipling      
             d. George Meredith

119.  A Footnote to History is a non-fiction work written by :
             a.  George Eliot         
             b. George Meredith        
             c. R.L. Stevenson      
             d. Leslie Stephen

120.  Which among the following is a recommendation of Macaulay in his Minute?

a. Immediate stopping of the printing by the East India Company of Arabic and Sanskrit books.

b. Mass education would be by the class of Anglicised Indians the new policy should produce.

c.  Needs to support establishments teaching a Western curriculum with English as the language of instruction.

d. All of them